tl;dr Brooks' hypothesis in “The Mythical Man Month” is that the nature of software development means that no further “order of magnitude” improvements to productivity remain to be found has proven re
Tagged with digital preservation, html Posted 16 October 2024 In my previous post, I talked about how I’m trying to be more intentional and deliberate with my digital data. I don’t just want to keep e
Community Pedal Power is excited to celebrate one complete year of operations for the E-Bike Lending Library! The E-bike Lending Library is a free resource for anyone to try out a variety of different
The Olympics are a celebration of athletic prowess, an event that incidentally highlights the diversity of the human body. Take height for example. Simone Biles, the GOAT, hurtled herself through her
I could use Docker, but didn’t understand it until I wrote Sustainable Dev Environments with Docker and Bash. While I was expecting to kind hate it, there’s actually some really cood stuff about Docke
The recent innovations in the AI space, most notably those such as GPT-4, obviously have far-reaching implications for society, ranging from the utopian eliminating of drudgery, to the dystopian damag
GraphQL is an incredible piece of technology that has captured a lot of mindshare since I first started slinging it in production in 2018. You won’t have to look far back on this (rather inactive) blo
Roden Issue 091 May 8, 2024 New Pop-up Walk, Reading Digitally in 2024 Walking the Tōkaidō, reading on a BOOX Palma Roden Readers — Here we are! May! Good god! Let’s dig right in. First, I’m running a
SOMERVILLE - Electric bikes are popping up everywhere in the Boston area and you don't have to feel left out if you haven't tried one. A Somerville man who loves them will let you ride an e-bike for a
For more than a decade, the tech industry has been defined by two economic zeros. The “zero interest rate policy” (ZIRP) across the western world saw the price of money plummet, letting startups run a
Origins Muse began life as part of a human-computer interaction lab called Ink & Switch. The lab's charter involved inventing a new computing environment that would better serve people doing important
Content Moderation from the your-reputation-is-what-you-allow dept Tue, Dec 26th 2023 09:33am - Back in April Substack founder/CEO Chris Best gave an interview to Nilay Patel in which he refused to an
Untangling Threads Back in the fall, I wrote a series of posts on a particularly horrific episode in Meta’s past. I hadn’t planned to revisit the topic immediately, but here we are, with Threads feder
I've been dismayed by the antisemitic-sounding talk I'm hearing in so many left-leaning circles. It's to the point that I basically won't talk about the war in Gaza because I don't want to have to sort out whether someone's repeating antisemitic talking points out of ignorance or malice.
If you'd…
Adjust Share When I was a kid, in the touch-tone era in the Midwest, I often dialed, for no real reason, the “time lady”—an actress named Jane Barbe, it turns out—who would announce, with prim authori
“It's a bilateral failure for the designer and the player to meet on an understanding that this is an intentional work of art by a human being and instead to treat it like it's a functional plastic tool made in a factory that is there to generate a particular biochemical response in your brain.…
“So, how would you describe your marriage? What happened?” Every time someone asks about my marriage, or about my divorce, I pause for a moment. Inside that imperceptible pause, I’m thinking about the
I love nothing more than to read blog posts written by nerds fueled by stubbornness and spite. Reading this glorious post on why a pedestrian bridge to seemingly nowhere exists is like listening to a full season of a true-crime podcast. No spoilers, but there is definitely a satisfying conclusion.…
Energy makes time 04 Aug 2023 by Mandy Brown BECAUSE I WORK WITH a lot of high performers, the kind of people who are frequently responsive to both the unending needs of their workplace and the unendi
For almost a complete decade—starting with discovering Haskell in about 2009 and right up until switching to a job where I used primarily Ruby and C++ in about 2019—I would have called myself first an
Tim Wehage grew up in South Florida. At home, the TV was often tuned to Fox News, where he heard a lot of rants about liberal hypocrisy, but he didn’t consider himself political. After high school, he
THAT’S MY BRILLIANT COUSIN LISA!!!! I am so proud of her and excited for her. Parents, you’re going to want to read this and I am not biased in the least. GO LISA!!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-…
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On a biodiverse sky island elevated from the barren Arizona desert, Dr. Aaron Corcoran flicks on powerful ultraviolet lights. “You set up a light here and you get almost clouds of insects,” he said. “And then the bats very quickly figure out, that’s where the…
I’ve recently been telling anyone who will listen that I am excited to be on the precipice of using Sorbet to write a type-checked edition of Mocktail that has the potential to unlock productivity wor
By Jessica Wilkerson Issue 121, Summer 2023 June 06, 2023 Public Courts, 2019, watercolor on paper by Charlie Roberts. Courtesy the artist and Woaw Gallery I spent my childhood in the country about fi
Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Alia Smith. The other night, I was making dinner when I realized that we were completely out of ginger. Our grocery store is pretty close by, but it’s too far to
“I’ll wipe my hands on my penis.” Essayist and activist Sophie McAllister is confident she’d never uttered those words before this week. Now, she tells Rolling Stone, she must have said them over a hu
E lon Musk is a singular visionary driving humanity toward a better future—or at least that’s what he and his admirers want us to believe. For the past two decades, supporters and news outlets have pr
So I was blocked by someone (that really should know better, I'm honestly disappointed/sad) for saying that "overpopulation arguments to deal with climate change" are disgusting and racist.
This is not a new idea, and the env. movement has demons here.
https://t.co/g64RPbThW2
India, and other liberal democracies, must prevent any app, foreign or home-grown, from coming to dominate our information space. Why an ‘ everything app’ is bad news for liberal democracies and free
Reviewing this list really makes me appreciate what a great time it is for science fiction.
The Martian, Murderbot, Wayfarers, Broken Earth, Machineries of Empire, Three Body Problem, Children of Time, Binti, Divine Cities, Teixcalaan… all this decade?
https://t.co/wmxRY2mVR5
Christopher Storer, the creator of The Bear , during filming of the show. FX Yes. Your friends are right. If you haven’t done so yet, you need to watch The Bear . That should be perfectly clear by now
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